Quotes About Fitness

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

Maddy, with her earbuds in, works the handlebars of an elliptical

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

In fact most of the slick computerized or cam-driven machines just won't do the trick as well as the basics of a barbell, a bench, and squat racks.

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning in the moldies." - Cher

The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes. Alleles (different versions of a gene) that increase the number of offspring become more common over the generations, even if that shortens life and increases suffering. This is not merely theoretical. Half of the human population has been shaped by selection to live fast and die young.

Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust cognition and behavior to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations.

Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats of exclusion from the group, and opportunities for mating were frequent and important enough to have shaped special patterns of preparedness, such as panic, social fear, and sexual arousal. Situations that are best avoided shape aversive emotions, while situations that involve opportunity shape positive emotions.

Losing weight is not about how to lose weight; it is about how to regain health.

I like to do squats because I want my butt to be bigger.

I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.

Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.

I really work on my abs. I'll do crunches, and I work on my butt.

I just try to keep the main thing the main thing: getting my butt in the gym.

I love bananas and almond butter.

Some people say I run too much, and by the time I arrive in front of goal, when I have to provide the finish, I am tired. But this is just my way of playing. I need to do this to score goals.

I train in the cage all the time. I have my own cage in my gym.

My abs were my bread and butter in the U.K. - the calendars, the photoshoots, and all that came with it.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

Exercising has a calming influence on me. It's almost like a meditation.

I didn't know what to do with calories.